There was a problem with the rendering of Hindi text in Mozilla
1.6 when
built on my Gentoo system. Certain characters would render incorrectly.
To investigate the bug, you'll have to have a Unicode-compatible Hindi
font installed on your system. You can find two Unicode Hindi
fonts here.
लि
should look like
However, on my system it
used to look like:
I solved this problem by installing a patch
already in the Mozilla Bugzilla
, as detailed by the README
for a Mozilla 1.6 build that renders the text correctly. This build has
been recommended on the official
mailing list of the Indlinux
project. As far as I can understand, the patch transfers the burden of
rendering of Unicode fonts to pango. This will probably mean that if it
isnt already, the mozilla ebuild will have to depend, directly or
indirectly, on pango.